Inaugural Etihad Airways A380 to Mumbai

The aircraft departed Abu Dhabi at 2:39pm local time and touched down on Mumbai’s main runway 27 in beautiful dusk lighting at 6:39pm reaching the designated Code F gate # 70 ten minutes later at 6:51pm.

Flight EY 204 was flown on Etihad’s second A380 registration A6-APB operated by 22 all-Indian crew with Captain Ramesh Krishna from Hyderabad & First Officer Irfan Rizvi from Mumbai at the controls.

As was reported in the media earlier, the customary water canon salute was skipped in light of water shortages in the state.

This is an upgrade in capacity and product on the route which was operated until now by a mixed-bag of their widebody fleet, mostly by their gorgeous Airbus A340s.